It was an exquisitely beautiful figure.
The woman had an exquisitely beautiful face and gentle features. Dressed in a blue-and-gold gown, she carried a noble, elegant air. On her otherworldly face, her deep blue eyes were as flawless as blue crystals.
She floated lightly in the air, wafts of delicate fragrance reaching the nose. Her fair cheeks were tinged with pink, her beauty beyond compare. Her bare feet were incomparably fair and soft, and she stood weightlessly in midair without shoes.
When Xu Ran saw Ah Yin's face as simulated by the system, his heart could not help stirring. Even Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing paled considerably beside Ah Yin. After all, they were both still too young to rival Ah Yin, whose body had already fully matured.
Ah Yin's perfect curves, her face crafted with skill that rivaled the heavens, and her skin like the finest jade all shook Xu Ran's composure.
She truly deserved to be the woman who had captivated both Tang Hao and Tang Xiao of the Clear Sky Sect.
Her beauty could be called utterly peerless.
Not a single female Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who underwent human transformation was ugly. Although Xu Ran did not know what they had to go through during human transformation, judging roughly from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's transformation into Wang Qiu'er during the Peerless Tang Sect era, they could sculpt their own faces. Naturally, they would not deliberately turn themselves into ugly women.
Moreover, when Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts underwent human transformation, their bodies had been tempered by their formidable strength, so their bodies and skin would naturally be far better than those of ordinary humans.
If Ah Yin's appearance had left Xu Ran awestruck, it had left Tang Hao terrified.
"Ah Yin, Ah Yin... why are you here?"
"How could you still be alive?"
Tang Hao abruptly stumbled back two steps and fell to the ground, unable to keep a chill of horror from rising in his heart. Seeing Ah Yin's exquisitely beautiful face again frightened him so much.
Hadn't Ah Yin been devoured completely by insects and ants? Then who was this person before him? Could she be a fake?
But that noble, elegant air unique to Ah Yin could not be faked.
As the saying went, if you had done nothing to shame your conscience, you would not fear a ghost knocking at your door. Had anyone else stood before him like this, he would never have reacted this way. He would even have assumed someone was playing ghostly tricks.
But when it was Ah Yin, he could not remain so calm.
Recalling the wrongs he had done Ah Yin before filled his heart with guilt and fear. He was very powerful, but how could he bring himself to attack Ah Yin to her face?
"Brother Hao, what are you saying? Don't you want to see me?" Ah Yin asked, her gentle voice drifting over.
"No, of course not. I've been thinking of you all these years." Tang Hao shook his head repeatedly. After having some time to recover, his panicked heart calmed slightly. He turned his gaze to Ah Yin and immediately noticed that her body was somewhat illusory rather than solid, and that she floated in the air, untouched by gravity.
Could this be Ah Yin's soul?
At this thought, Tang Hao's heart clenched again.
He could not help lowering his head. When he raised his eyes again, he was startled.
Ah Yin before him had changed into a deathly white gown. Her lower body had long since vanished, and her exquisitely beautiful face was deathly pale, without a trace of color.
"Brother Hao, did my death have something to do with you?" Ah Yin suddenly widened her eyes and rushed straight up to Tang Hao, stopping less than a centimeter from his face. She stared fixedly at him, her eyes seeming to hold fury, resentment, and unwillingness to accept her fate.
"No, no, no, Ah Yin. Didn't you sacrifice yourself back then? I failed you. I didn't protect you." Tang Hao's heart clenched violently in fright. Looking at this pale-faced Ah Yin, his mind stopped working altogether.
Ah Yin was the knot in his heart, his nightmare. Facing her, how could he dare entertain any other thoughts?
Especially when Ah Yin had put her finger squarely on the guilty deed he had kept hidden all along, making him even more afraid.
"But why did Spirit Hall suddenly learn of my existence just when you were about to break through, Brother Hao? Why wouldn't you let me hide in the Star Dou Great Forest when Spirit Hall came to hunt me down? If I had hidden in Star Dou back then, I could have activated the Undying and Imperishable Domain and transformed into a vast sea of Blue Silver Grass. Those Titled Douluo wouldn't have been able to find my true body, so they would have had no way to kill me. Why wouldn't you let me go in, Brother Hao?" Ah Yin continued pressing him, her gaze turning venomous.
That terrifying gaze, like a venomous snake's, nearly shattered Tang Hao's heart. How did Ah Yin know? Why did she know what had happened back then?
Tang Hao could not help feeling horrified. Anyone would be terrified to have the guilty deeds buried deep in their heart unearthed. It had nothing to do with strength. Even the most powerful Soul Master would be utterly fragile when confronted with their own nightmare.
"Ah Yin, I was afraid you'd be punished if you went in there. There were so many Ferocious Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. They disapproved of your human transformation. I was worried about you..." Tang Hao said, turning his head aside, not daring to meet Ah Yin's eyes.
"Afraid? Then why wouldn't you let me escape alone? That way, I would still have had hope of surviving."
"Was it you who deliberately left traces of your presence while we were fleeing together, luring Spirit Hall's Titled Douluo to us?" Ah Yin's voice suddenly grew extremely loud, turning somewhat shrill and anguished.
"Was it you who wanted to obtain my Soul Ring?"
"Was it you who plotted my death because you were about to break through to Titled Douluo?"
"Was it you who deliberately planted me in this place where the sun never shines, wanting to leave me to live or die on my own?"
"Was it you? Was it you..." As Ah Yin spoke, she advanced toward Tang Hao step by step, her eyes wide and threaded with streaks of blood, filling him with boundless horror.
Tang Hao, meanwhile, retreated step by step in fear.
Finally, with nowhere left to retreat, Tang Hao leaned against the stone wall. Looking at Ah Yin, he steeled himself and gritted his teeth.
"It was me! I did it all! Are you satisfied now?" Tang Hao shouted. Looking at Ah Yin's ghost before him, he finally could not bear it anymore.
"I really was responsible for everything back then. I failed you. I could never make up for the harm I did you, not in a lifetime." Tang Hao slumped on the ground, looking at Ah Yin. When he said all this, he suddenly realized that he felt much better, and the burden in his heart fell away at that moment.
For the past twelve years, he had been blaming himself, regretting, and fearing. Throughout those twelve years, he could only fall asleep when he was drunk. He did not dare confide in anyone else about such things and could only endure them silently alone.
Now that he had said these things to Ah Yin, he felt so much better.
After speaking the words he had kept buried in his heart all this time, he looked at Ah Yin again and no longer felt the same horror as before.
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